May 31, 2012

2010 US divorce rate 0.36 percent, previous rates revised upward

The National Center for Health Statistics at the CDC has released a 2010 divorce rate and absolute number of divorces, in a different and briefer format than in past years. It has also revised the rates it reported over the past decade, which it had reported to be as low as 3.4 divorces per 1000 population in 2009; that has been corrected to 3.5.

The 2010 rate is 3.6 divorces per 1000 population: i.e., 0.72% of the population got divorced that year. The absolute number of divorces was 872,000. This 2010 number and rate do not include any data for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, and Minnesota.